{"id":622627,"date":"2026-04-22T02:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/622627\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T02:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:24:09","slug":"liam-lawson-concedes-to-f1-driver-flaw-that-will-never-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/622627\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson concedes to F1 driver flaw: &#8216;That will never change&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liam Lawson has acknowledged that F1 drivers are susceptible to \u201ccomplaining about everything\u201d, admitting it is not something he sees changing going forward.<\/p>\n<p>A number of the F1 competitors have voiced their disappointment with the new cars for 2026 across the opening three rounds of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The animosity paved the way for a series of meetings in April, including one on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews365.com\/f1-car-changes-confirmed-after-crunch-meeting\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">during which changes to the cars were agreed.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But Lawson has conceded that F1 drivers will never be completely happy when it comes to the performance of any car they are given.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, there&#8217;s always going to be things that we want from the car,\u201d he told media including RacingNews365.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs racing drivers, we kind of complain about everything so I think that&#8217;ll never change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking ahead of Monday&#8217;s crunch meeting in which changes were agreed, Lawson detailed that the safety element was the most important factor following Oliver Bearman&#8217;s high-speed crash in Japan last time out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the regulation side, the biggest thing right now is probably the safety aspect of it, especially with what we saw in Japan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that&#8217;s something that we want to avoid in the future going forward. And on the performance side, that&#8217;s something that obviously will always evolve.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at any other regulation, the start of it, there&#8217;s been a huge sort of development over the five-year process that the regulations have been out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, I&#8217;m sure these will obviously evolve and get faster and I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll find ways to make the cars nicer to drive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that we do, because I think at the moment, especially in qualifying, we&#8217;re trying to put the car on the limit and extract everything out of it in ways that at the moment it feels like we&#8217;re not able to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson has acknowledged that F1 drivers are susceptible to \u201ccomplaining about everything\u201d, admitting it is not something&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-622627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1-calendar","12":"tag-f1-live","13":"tag-f1-results","14":"tag-f1-standings","15":"tag-ferrari","16":"tag-formula-1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motor","20":"tag-motor-sports","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-motosport","23":"tag-motosports","24":"tag-racing","25":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}